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An unspecified vulnerability in Appian Enterprise Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 5.6 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted packet to the service listening on TCP port 5400. The exact nature of the vulnerability is not disclosed, but it results in service disruption.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit auxiliary module targeting a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Appian Enterprise Business Suite 5.6 SP1 (CVE-2007-6509). The exploit is implemented in Ruby and is structured as a standard Metasploit module under 'modules/auxiliary/dos/windows/appian/appian_bpm.rb'. The module connects to the target's TCP port 5400 and sends a specially crafted binary request with randomized fields, which causes the Appian service to crash. The exploit does not provide code execution or privilege escalation, only service disruption. The only fingerprintable endpoint is the TCP port 5400, which must be accessible for the exploit to succeed. The code is a proof-of-concept (POC) and does not include advanced payload customization. The repository is part of the Metasploit framework and follows its conventions for auxiliary DoS modules.
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